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Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll talk with Kathleen Rumpf (KthleenRumpf@aol.com) and Ed Kinane (EdKinane@verizon.net) who have been among a group of anti-drone protestors outside Hancock Air National Guard base in upstate New York. Both have been arrested for peacefully protesting. Recently a judge has placed a restraining order on the activists from approaching the home, school or workplace of a commander at the base. If they violate the order they face ...

Women's Show host Mary Glenney highlights Malala Yousafzai in a CNN interview discussing why she wants an education and why she feels that all girls should be allowed to go to school to pursue an education. She recently survived an assassination attempt in Pakistan and continues to improve in a London hospital.

Malala began blogging for the BBC and Guardian newspaper under a pseudonym when she was just 11 yrs old. She was awarded the International Peace Award for Children in Pakistan an...

Many people criticize the United Stateâs use of drone strikes in places like Pakistan and Yemen because they often claim civilian lives. A retired Marine Corps General defends the strikes saying they are necessary to thwart terrorist activity.

Anthony Zinni is the former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command and a current peace envoy in the Middle East. Most of the deadly attacks have occurred in Pakistan. Zinni says thatâs because itâs the epi...

With uprisings in overseas countries and U.S. occupations of places like Afghanistan, peace activists called attention to the problems yesterday in downtown St. Pete by hitting each other with pillows.

âEverybody is out here just hitting each other, but laughing at the same time. So, itâs kind of like a play on words.â

Elizabeth Dunn planned the event because, as she put it, it was on her bucket list. The idea was to promote peace through togetherness.

The Tampa Tribune reports the city will use drones for surveillance during the Republican National Convention next week. More than 100 peace activists protested the use of unmanned drones in countries overseas at Raytheon in Largo Thursday afternoon.

Tighe Barry is with the group Code Pink. One of their main focuses is on anti-war efforts. Barry has long suspected that the U.S. might start using the technology on American soil.

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Iâm Rob Lorei. Coming up on the first part of todayâs program---One of Pakistanâs leading journalists and best-selling author Ahmed Rashid warns that Pakistan is heading towards meltdown and anarchy.

In his new book PAKISTAN ON THE BRINK Rashid offers solutions for his country's frayed ties with the United States and how U.S. peace talks with the Taliban is crucial in its exit strategy from Afghanistan.

We spoke with St. Petersburg Times reporter Susan Taylor Martin who recently returned from a reporting trip to Pakistan. A country that has nuclear weapons, is a US ally but which has huge internal problems. Whatâs the future of Pakistan? Weâll talk about that in a moment.

But first one listener comment about yesterdayâs program on which we talked about the Governor taking advantage of the stateâs cut rate health insurance program for some top state work...

U.S. officials say that Osama bin Laden kept a hand-written journal filled with planning ideas and details of operations. it was seized in the U.S. raid as part of a huge cache of intelligence that included about 100 flash drives and five computers.

In remarks today at a Democratic National Committee event in Austin, President Barack Obama said a determined effort by U.S. intelligence and military led to the discovery and killing of bin Laden.

Pakistan's prime minister says the army will investigate how al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden hid for years on his country's soil without being detected.

Yousuf Raza Gilani made the comments during an address to Parliament today, a week after a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad killed the suspected terrorist mastermind.

Gilani rejected claims that Pakistani authorities were either incompetent in searching for bin Laden or complicit in hiding him, and exp...